A slots tournament? What’s that all about?

September 16th, 2008

When you walk up to a slot machine in a casino or log into an online casino and play the slots, you start a battle between you and the machine. Actually, even if you’re a experienced player, the machine will almost always come out ahead over the long term. That’s the way casinos make a profit. But for fun, you can sign up for a tournament where you’re playing against the other players. In the real world, one of the current tournaments is running at Cache Creek Casino in Brooks (Yolo County), for the next six weeks (it finishes at midnight on the 19th June).

Like most real-world tournaments, the casino has corralled a number of machines and members of the local slots club are rotated in every fifteen minutes to play for three minutes. The player who racks up the biggest score in those three minutes will be the winner. The total prize money fund is $200,000 with everyone in the top fifty winning at least $1,000.

Online, the same principles apply. Whoever enters the tournament is given a preset number of credits and a fixed time. The winner is the one who has the biggest total at the end of the allocated time. Some tournaments are free or by invitation - they are usually ways in which casinos reward the regulars who have a good spend online. The others have an entry fee. It is customary to return most of the stake money as prizes. This differs from the real world where the players may get other comps like drinks, meals or subsidised rooms in the hotel to offset any reduction in the prize money.

If you cannot cope with your credits in the time, you are not going to win unless you are lucky enough to get some good scores. Always check the pay table before you start and make sure you aim for the best paying combinations. That means it’s all down to concentration and fast reflexes. As soon as you see the draw, you must be hitting the holds and draw button. If you slow down, you lose.Obviously, if you have never tried a slots tournament, the best way to find out whether you enjoy one is to enter one that is free. Whatever the time allocated, you must make sure you use all the credits you are given. The winner will have used all his or her credits, made the best decisions on holds, and been lucky with the draws.

This high pressure may not be for you. If you’re playing for fun, this may be taking life too seriously. But if you do want to improve your skills, playing a tournament or two will get the adrenaline running and build up your speed and accuracy.

Video poker machines are a con

September 14th, 2008

pay a little attention to video poker machines lurking in the corner of land-based casinos where the local gambling ordinances permit them. They are there to take the hard-earned dollars from suckers. They play to the greed, the get-rich-quick in the poor saps who can’t resist them. . . Sore losers. . . Everyday you hear them sobbing about lost money and still see them coming back to the machines. There’s only one thing you can say about these people. They have worked out the one important feature of the machines. Casino always win. No matter where you go in the casino world, whether its to some swanky place or online, the paytables are set in a way that gives the House a mathematical advantage. Then those streaks will go cold. That’s just the way statistics work their way to the one mathematical certainty. The House will win in the end. So don’t understand those poor people wrong. There’s no need for the House to rig the machines. The casino operators are going to win in the long term without having to cheat. There’s no way they will spoil a sure thing by risking detection as a fraud by regulators.

A way to two jackpots

September 11th, 2008

Over in Louisiana, there’s a small and unremarkable community called Ventress. It sits in Pointe Coupee Parish. Pass down Main Street to False River Drive and you’ve missed it. Except there’s been a dareful crime. It was very curious and movie-like, but the fact that it took place is still presents. Just two guys who stole two video poker machines. This small town did never knew the big crimes. But this day cameras’ve sought some. The bad guys pulled up outside the Waterloo Exxon and Daiquiris Shop in their Chevy truck. For those of you who don’t know Ventress, that’s right next to the levee on the corner. Now these two climb out wearing masks - shows foresight and planning. The smaller had a problems with leg, but this didn’t confused him. The big guy (local CSI have him wearing a size 13 boot which matches his impressive build) smashes through the glass frontage like it was a movie set fake. Now that’s impressive. Each video poker machine comes in at a slimline 300 pounds but these two heroes exit their truck and drive away with the two machines in the back in 33 seconds. That’s 33 seconds!!! We’d like to be able to say these robbers peeled the machines open with their bare hands, but they used sledgehammers. A little bit of cheating and they have became a milliinaires. So if you meet a small guy with biceps to die for and a limp in a bar down in Louisiana, he’s buying the next round.

Playing with the Big Boys Means Winning Big Money

September 7th, 2008

How do you know you’d make a great casino game player? Easy: you want to see your pockets lined with cash but you don’t mind it so much if you walk away with thinner pockets. It’s all about fun, but you definitely have paid your dues and practiced enough to know how the online casino games are played. You’ve experienced all of the sides of the casino. You’ve improved your playing skills since you was playing in land-based casinos. You know when to double-down and you know when to walk away from the table. Now, the stakes are higher because you’re done playing slots for free. Now your skills are at their best. You want the progressive slots and you want to win the big jackpot. When you’re done with that you are ready to move onto the “bog boy” table, playing for real money and playing for keeps at online blackjack and online poker. But hey! You work hard every single day and have obligations. You won’t be able to get to the casino for a few months? How do you remedy this? Easy. Online casinos are real, virtual reality worlds in which you can win real cold hard cash. Start playing slots online and winning now.

I am ready to begin playing slots tournaments. I can’t wait!

September 4th, 2008

To anyone who is considering playing slots in house or slots online, I say go for it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain from being an everyday person just like me who likes to play slots!

The first time I stepped into a casino, I had no clue on what to do or where to go. The action was happening all around me. It wasn’t until I was attracted to the slots machines that I understood where I had to be. The cha-ching noise it made and the busy crowds that surrounded it all made sense. Slots were the games to play. So play I did. In my first few moments, I racked up bonuses like you wouldn’t believe. I always bet max bet because I had heard from a friend that that was the way to go when looking for a larger payout. Soon enough, I was winner! When I play slots, I see the amount of variety offered. The slots bonuses are always amazing! There are so many different themes available and it is always nice to watch other players win money from playing free slots. I can tell these players practice from their own slots online games.

What is The Culture of Slots?

August 29th, 2008

What is The Culture of Slots?

Playing online slots can be a different experience, though. When you initially sign up with a casino online you find that you may be new to the terms and phrases. Things like “progressive slots” may go right over your head. When this happens, it is usually okay and common to ask questions and even get together with other online slots players.

After you begin to play online slots a few times and you learn more about the lingo that slots players use, you will find that you are not alone. Soon, you can build your way up to the professional level, that’s how easy it is to learn slots and develop a passion for winning money at the game.There is a community of slots players who choose slots over any online casino or traditional casino game out there. They do this for many reasons; one is of course the ease of online slots.

In the beginning of the levels of slots online, you will see that there is always a willingness to help from more advance players. They will always help you out if you have a question. The culture of slots in traditional settings is a pretty uniform in comparison to online slots. While the majority of slots players in land based casinos are more inclined to drink or smoke given the social circumstances, online casino players will come in various shapes and sizes. Keep in mind that online casino players are playing from the convenience of their own homes and PCs. This means that anyone from Joe Law Student to The Mailman or your local Elementary teacher may be playing a fun stress relieving game of slots online.

The culture of slots online is a very unique one because it is made up of so many kinds of people. Ask questions, discuss strategies, or just connect with folks who have the same gambling enthusiasm as you. When you are ready to experience the slots community and culture that so many others have already fallen in love with, sign up to play today.

Instinctive paranoia

August 26th, 2008

But, after the third screwdriver, he did get me to thinking. When I lost the third pot in a row to river cards against the odds, I confess to thinking I was caught in a skin game. Just a moment of anger. Ain’t no-one with the cojones to try anything against me for real - not with my connections. But there’s lots of folk get it into their heads that online video poker sites are cheating them. So I s’pose I’d better say a few words of reassurance - not that it’ll actually boost your confidence. The truth ain’t designed to do that.

So, let me sit you down in front of a video poker machine playing Jacks or Better on a pay table that’s offering 9-6-250 like online at goldencasino.com. For those who’ve not boned up on the jargon, that’s a machine paying 250 per coin on a Royal Flush, 9 on a Full House and 6 on a Flush. That machine’s set up to pay back only a fraction over 98% of what it takes. Even if you play a perfect strategy on this machine, the theoretical return never gets above 100%. It bears saying again. No matter which lucky rabbit’s foot you got in your pants, the very best you can hope to do is to almost break even.

‘Cause most folk can’t play the perfect strategy, the House edge on every video poker machine keeps the funds rolling in. That’s why you gotta pass the carousels of slot machines before you get to the tables. They’re the bread-an-butter earners for every casino.

If I stopped there, there’s no sense in any casino cheating on the slot machines. But don’t even try to think that you can succes in this. Greed’s the worm in the gambling apple. Don’t matter which side of the fence you’re on, there’s always some as thinks they’re gonna hit it big. So I’ve seen pit bosses and managers decide the Vig’s not enough and rig the games. I’ve seen a few do it to put the money in their own pockets - most of them got decent burials, too. Yeh, there’s some cheating going on, but most of it’s on your side and it’s not very subtle.

People are often very hot and passionate, that always makes the loss harder to bear - when your emotion gets in the way of your judgement. Gambling’s got streaks of luck both ways. On one hot August night in 1913, the roulette wheel in Monte Carlo came up black a record-breaking twenty-six times in a row. The House took millions of extra profit. Half the room got to playing the Martingdale System. They were doubling their bets after every loss. But they tapped out of money before the streak ended. Was there anything wrong with the wheel? Nope! The math god smiled and it was true.

If you think that you’re true lucky person, the only way to prove this to other people is to play online slots. Well, you gotta test their slot machines. Pick one of their video poker games. Say before you start how many times you’re gonna play and what you hafta see to prove the machine’s rigged. S’pose you think a video poker game don’t have all the faces in the deck - you’ve to track the frequency of the faces as they show in the count of all non-face cards. So how many thousand hands of data you gonna pay to collect to test your hypothesis? It’s put up or shut up. No-one likes a sore loser unless they got the evidence to prove otherwise.

How Atlantic City became top gambling destination

August 13th, 2008

The first legal East Coast casino in the twentieth century. Their four- and six-deck blackjack games offered a new form of surrender, dubbed by card counters as “early surrender,” since the casino allowed players to surrender half a bet even when the dealer showed an ace or 10 up, and before the dealer checked for a blackjack. Ironically, as word spread through the gambling community that card counters found the Resorts’ blackjack game to be the most lucrative game for players in the country, gamblers from all over the world - most of whom knew nothing about basic strategy or card counting - flocked to their tables. And, ironically, Resorts International was soon the most profitable casino in history, winning an average of $650,000 per day.

A team of professional blackjack players whose founders were from Czechoslovakia that had been playing in Las Vegas flew all of their members to Atlantic City to take advantage of this new surrender rule. This team, which later became known in the casino industry as simply the Czech Team, found the Resorts’ game to their liking and stayed for months.

It was also in 1978 that the first MIT blackjack team was started. This team actually consisted of students from MIT, Harvard, and other East Coast colleges. Johnny C.j now a legendary player who joined the team in 1981, plays high-stakes blackjack to this day and continues organizing teams of professional players. The Czechs, the Hyland teams, and the MIT teams would be the scourge of the casino industry for decades to come. Many believe these teams owe their existence to the Resorts’ game with its early surrender rule that made the game so easy to beat. College kids found that they could pool their money, play blackjack with a modicum of intelligence, and get rich quick.

Online Poker Etiquette

August 13th, 2008

Playing poker online is not exactly the same as playing face to face with others in a casino. You must comprehend the basic player’s behavour rules.

Much of online poker etiquette has to do with using the chat feature. When chatting, don’t be critical of the way other people play. Don’t point out the mistakes of others or brag about winning. If you must discuss your hand with other players, be sure that you wait until the hand is over, even if you have already folded. When the hand is over, be very limited in how much you talk about how it was played. If you folded, don’t talk about what could have happened if you had stayed in. No one but you is interested in that.